Books I read in 2021
Below is a list of the 12 books I read this year, spanning 4244 pages (according to Goodreads). This is less than 2018 (16), 2019 (40), and 2020 (23), but considering this is my first full year with a toddler, I’m pleased!
Those in bold were my favourites.
- Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace and Jim Erickson
- The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
- How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough
- Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track by Will Larson
- The Art of Readable Code by Dustin Boswell and Trevor Foucher
- Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone
- Writing an Interpreter in Go by Thorsten Ball (reread)
- The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
- Means of Ascent by Robert Caro
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov (reread)
- Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov (reread)
- Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov (reread)
And here are books I started but didn’t or haven’t finished.
- Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan
- Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction by Morton Davis
- The Box by Marc Levinson
- The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
- The Rise of Christianity by Rodney Stark
- Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
- Mindstorms by Seymour Papert
- The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin
2021 book thread
— Vegard Stikbakke (@vegardstikbakke) January 17, 2021